Christian Otto von Limburg Stirum, count of Limburg Bronkhorst and Stirum (1694–1749), was a member of the House of Limburg-Stirum and the third reigning monarch from the branch of Limburg-Styrum-Styrum.
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Biography
Limburg Stirum was the son of Moritz Hermann of Limburg Stirum and countess Elisabeth Dorothea of Leiningen-Dagsburg.
Family
Christian Otto von Limburg Stirum married three times and had 14 children of which a lot died at an early age:
first in 1718 with princess Juliana of Hesse-Wanfried (born 1690, died 1724); they had 5 children:
Franziska Elisabeth, born in 1719, died in 1752, she married in 1732 prince Philipp zu Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (he died in 1759);
Karl Joseph, born in 1720, died in 1725;
Ernestine Elisabeth Alexandrine, a nun in Köln, born in 1721, died in 1752;
Philipp Ferdinand, born and died in 1722;
NN, born and died in 1724;